Paulo Butti De Lima

. Degree from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of São Paulo, Brazil, 1984 (recognized by the University of Pisa)

. Specialization at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (1986-1988)

. Doctorate at the Higher School of Historical Studies of San Marino (1989-1991)

. Assistant Professor at the Advanced School of Historical Studies, San Marino (1993-2002)

. Associate Professor at the University of Bari Aldo Moro (since 2002)

• member of the Scientific Council of the Higher School of Historical Studies of San Marino (scientific director);
• Visiting Professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil (1997 and 1999) and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1999 and 2002);
• member of the Italian Association of Historians of Political Doctrines;
• member of the Pragma research group, University of Rio de Janeiro.
• member of the editorial board of the journals Phaos, Kleos, Classica, Anabases, Storia del pensiero politico, of the Mandala and Mele cotogne series (ed. Pensa), of the scientific committee of the website “Pictor in fabula”; scientific director of the editorial series of the Higher School of Historical Studies of San Marino.
• member of various doctoral commissions in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, San Marino, Toulouse.
• member of various Boards of Professors of PhD courses in Bari.
• conferences as invited professor abroad: Brazil: Sao Paulo (USP), Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Araraquara (Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Classicos), Ouro Preto (Fiec), Assis (Unesp), Florianopolis (UFSC), Niterói ( UFF); France: Paris (Centre Gernet), Toulouse (Programme Erasme); Portugal: Lisboa (Centro de Filosofia, Universidade de Lisbon); Switzerland: Lausanne (Université de Lausanne).
• participation in conferences and study meetings, among others, in Trento, Gibellina, Naples (Suor Orsola Benincasa), Paris (Ecole Normale Supérieure), Italy (Politeia, 2002 – 2016).
• scientific director of international agreements of the University of Bari with the University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and São Paulo (USP).

1. History of philosophy and political thought in classical antiquity (Platonic political reflection, Aristotelian politics and ethics);

2. History of modern and contemporary political thought in its relation to the classical tradition;

3. Greek historiography;

4. Ancient poetics and its modern tradition;

5. Tradition of classical studies;

6. The theory of democracy from antiquity to the present day.